Module Gate
Gate: Loop Engineering
10 min
Check that you can bound, validate, route, retry, and terminate an iterative workflow.
- 01Synthesize bounded loops, guardrails, routing, and graceful degradation into a single reliability mindset
- 02Match each production failure mode to its correct control or exit
You’ve now seen the full picture: an autonomous agent is a while-loop holding an API key and a credit card, and reliability is mostly the art of drawing limits and exits around a system that won’t draw them for itself. Bound the loop with five budgets and three exits, enforce real guardrails that can veto, route to the cheapest sufficient model while watching for silent quality loss, and degrade gracefully through retry, fallback, breakers, and an honest ladder.
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A ReAct agent calls the same tool with identical arguments over and over and never finishes. Which control directly addresses this?